Hi all,

I am doing my internship in Singapore now and exploring the city. I notice that the hawker centre at MRT stations seem to sell food cheaper compared to other hawker/food centre. Chicken rice is only 2 SGD at Kranji, Woodlands and other stations while it can be around 2.80 SGD at hawker centre nearby. Mixed rice which cost 2.50 SGD can be slightly more than 3 SGD in other places. Why is this? Is it because the shop/stall rent at MRT stations are low?

I am also curious about the education system in Singapore. If parents are PR but kids are SG citizen, do parents pay according to SG citizen tariff (way cheaper) or PR tariff (which is much more expensive)?

Happy new year everyone!

My search tells me it is possible. At least at education levels above primary schools.

https://www.ica.gov.sg/PR/citizenship/PR_ci...nship_becomeasc

See option No. 4. That's why I am asking it.

So, if parents are PR, and kids are citizen, do parents pay at PR rate or citizen rate for their children's school and miscellaneous fees?

The official MOE website's data compare the PR rate fee with IS (international student) fee, so I am presuming that they refer to children, and this implies a possibility that PR parents whose children are SG citizens may be able to enjoy much lower rate for their schooling expenses.

I am aware that high expenses of schooling for Malaysian PR here is one major hurdles that every PR holder must face, and the SG government is thus forcing the PR to become citizens eventually.

This post has been edited by TOS: Jan 1 2020, 08:13 PM

I don't eat out near the Downtown core area. It's certainly understandable that food near CBD area are more expensive, due to the land price, rent etc. But I am now comparing food prices in MRT stations to other hawker centres in (the same) northern regions, northeast and to some extent, eastern region of SG, where I have explored during my stay here in the past week, not between 2 different regions (or district, as you call them in SG).

I work at Tampines, by the way.

Thanks for the confirmation.

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This post has been edited by TOS: Jan 13 2020, 03:32 PM

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This post has been edited by TOS: Jan 13 2020, 03:32 PM

I received application invitation from "senior" HR for Garena's management associate programme. Checked salary 5k SGD looks enticing.

Not sure if management associate is considered "backend"?

Any reason as to why need to avoid those 2 places?

My rent at NTU Graduate Hall 1 will end in June. I am planning to move over to somewhere near CIQ to stay. Looking at around 700-1000 MYR a month, single room with window, doesn't need aircond.

Any advice for a newbie looking to move to JB and any pitfalls to avoid? For a start I realize the roads around CIQ isn't pedestrian-friendly, so even a good place like Paragon Suites literally located next to the CIQ requires half an hour of walk around the CIQ perimeter in order to enter the building itself from JB Sentral...

R&F Princess Cove has a link bridge (chopped halfway due to the RTS Construction...) to CIQ which seems convenient.

Any advice you could give would be much appreciated.

This post has been edited by TOS: Apr 7 2024, 11:56 AM